Drum-Machines

Throughout the ages and their various uses, survival tools (rhombus wind instruments, flute-calls, etc.) have become musical instruments. In the context of this work, these vectors of affects co-exist side-by-side with an electro-acoustic system. This machine cannibalizes its own sound production while simultaneously thriving on sounds produced by the musicians. From this agora spring forth "multitimbral" landscapes whose edges dissolve into microtonal steppes, devoid of human action.

From liminal pulsation to decimal infinity, the physicality of the sound summons an allegory to geology, from the infra thin (l’émoi - volute) to the supra massive (embâcle - doline). Drum-Machines consists of subconscious and collective archaic fields that reach all the way to the noise aberration of the contemporary world. The 21st century begins in its great collapse, the imbalances and the disruptions of the sound masses deployed by organisms in movement (percussionists) compress time and sounds until their paroxysms.

This work is the elaboration of a lengthy sifting approach in which process creates form through a dynamic composition. This process uses accumulation, manipulation and re-arrangement across several generations of sound data. The original intention is modified and transformed. Drum-Machines is polymorphic in it’s arrangement, suspended on a line of time and actions.

From a hummingbird flapping its wings To the hiss of a primitive wind instrument saturating the air with liminal insects Is born an iterative dance of water drops.A rhythmicon charming the pulsations of a proletarianized timpanist builds its beat into a monumental syncline where its peak reaches zero degree.Erikm 2017Label PDS France